Search form

Frank Durso

Education

Ph.D. (1980) Experimental Psychology/Cognitive State University of New York at Stony Brook

Research Interests

Most of my current research would fall under the labels applied cognition or cognitive ergonomics: how cognition (e.g., knowledge, expertise, working memory, attention allocation, strategy selection) interacts with environmental components (e.g., technology, the representation of data, available automation, patient symptoms, presence of teammates) to affect the operator's performance, learning, transfer, workload, situation awareness, and strategic thinking. Current projects are looking at errors in doffing preventative medical garb, detecting and identifying hospital acquired infections, and strategies in pediatric intensive care providers. Student projects also include work on designing-for-compliance, predicting situation change, understanding dynamic environments. I will be leaving Georgia Tech soon and thus will no longer be taking students.